Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Horace

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Allen, James

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jackson, Jesse

10.

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

11.

A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

12.

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

13.

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Herold, Don

14.

A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

15.

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

16.

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

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Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

L'Amour, Louis

18.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

19.

Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.

20.

When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Caddy, Eileen

21.

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

22.

Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.

Guthrie, Woody

23.

Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

24.

Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

25.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

26.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

27.

Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Hill, Napoleon

28.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

29.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Landers, Ann

30.

If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

31.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

32.

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

33.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

Opportunities are everywhere.The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff.There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

Benington, Lucy

35.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

Wicker, John

37.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

38.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

40.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Marden, Orison Swett

41.

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

42.

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

43.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

44.

Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

46.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

47.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

48.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

49.

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

50.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English